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Silicon Speech Shape
By modelling the geometric resonance of speech, visually expressive letterforms emerge. The advantages of light emitting screens rather than reflective paper are obvious: all the features of the letterform can modulate as sounded. Diaphragm, trachea, larynx, tongue, palette, lips: tubes that resonate to create resonance. Language landscapes labyrinth lingual. New letterforms grown from formulas. Coral…
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Visual Language (Encyclopedia Pictura)
In my thesis, I state: “I think visual language evolution is on a trajectory toward becoming a real-world object. The shape of these letterform objects might correspond to embodied structures: visual analogs of mathematics that arise from the acoustic resonance inside our bodies. It can be argued that much of proportional aesthetics (theories of golden…
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An Image-Essay on Image-Texts
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2000 – ? : Dreaming Methods
Like the tentacles or root system of a macabre plant, Dreaming Methods (a website developed by programmer-poet Andy Campbell often with primary collaborator/partner videographer Judi Alston) distributes audacious and sensual digital fiction thru multiple media: browsers, apps and pdfs. Its vision is disturbing yet never horrific: conspiracy theories, incest, suicides, rape, dreams, runaways, amnesiacs. Brooding soundscapes. Destabilizing…
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1926 Marcel Duchamp – Anemic Cinema
The spinning wheel[1] is fundamental to both hard-drives and to Marcel Duchamp’s 1926 film Anemic Cinema, an early example of animated text. In Anemic Cinema[2] phrases painted in spirals onto a flat disk rotate at constant speed. The reader reads inward from the edge to the phrase’s end near the spinning centre. This process evokes…
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2008: Karsten Schmidt: programmable typography
Post-Spectacular studio, directed by Karsten Schmidt, in 2008 developed a dimensional typography Type & Form experiment that explores boundaries between animation, code, concrete poetry and sculpture. By synthesizing formal elements with technical skill, Schmidt establishes a benchmark for digital typography. The Type & Form font was grown generatively using a reaction-diffusion model. Pixels migrate into…